Bioinformatics Institute (BII)
The Bioinformatics Institute (BII) was set up by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in July 2001; it was re-launched with a strong scientific program in 2007. Located in the Biopolis in Singapore, BII is conceived as the computational biology research and postgraduate training institute as well as a national resource centre in bioinformatics within the Biomedical Research Council (BMRC) of A*STAR.
The Bioinformatics Institute (BII) aims to understand the biomolecular mechanisms that underlie biomedical phenomena by developing sophisticated computational methods to support this discovery process from a secure and sustainable data hub to cross-disciplinary AI/ML analysis and data integration. We analyse a wide spectrum of biological and clinical data, including omics data (biomolecular sequences, expression profiles, epigenetics data), 3D structures of macromolecules, and biological tissue and macroscopic images from local and international academic, hospital and industry collaborators, public resources and from our own experiments. Our applied research diversifies into infectious diseases, computational toxicology, natural product research, precision medicine, cancer research, and drug discovery.
Research Divisions
Biomolecular Sequence to Functions
Biomolecular Structure to Mechanism
Cellular Image Informatics
Biomedical Data Hub
Events
Upcoming Events
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May
BII Seminar: Computational Phenotyping in the Era of Precision Medicine: A realistic perspective on the status quo
Cysteine Meeting Room, Level 7 Matrix
Thursday, 23 May 2024
BII Seminar: Computational Phenotyping in the Era of Precision Medicine: A realistic perspective on the status quo
Speaker : Dr Tudor Groza, Data and Technology Coordinator, Rare Care Centre, Perth Children’s Hospital
Title : Computational Phenotyping in the Era of Precision Medicine: A realistic perspective on the status quo
Meeting ID : 916 9074 3429
Passcode : 263251
Wednesday, 27 March 2024
BII Seminar: Part 2 - Applications of Variational Quantum Algorithms in computational Chemistry and Biology
Speaker : Dr Kalyan Dasgupta, IBM Research India
Title : Applications of Variational Quantum Algorithms in computational Chemistry and Biology
Friday, 05 April 2024
BII Seminar: The MIB BioSoftware Foundry: bespoke computational solutions for biotechnology and biomedical research
Speaker : Prof Rainer Breitling, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester
Title : The MIB BioSoftware Foundry: bespoke computational solutions for biotechnology and biomedical research
Thursday, 25 April 2024
BII Seminar: 3D high-content screening spheroid model in autophagy
Speaker : Dr Janos Kriston-Vizi, Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology (LMCB), University College London
Title : 3D high-content screening spheroid model in autophagy
Monday, 15 April 2024
BII Seminar: Structure, function, and regulation of G protein-coupled receptors
Speaker : Dr Arun K. Shukla, Dept of Biological Sciences and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Title : Structure, function, and regulation of G protein-coupled receptors
Thursday, 23 May 2024
BII Seminar: Computational Phenotyping in the Era of Precision Medicine: A realistic perspective on the status quo
Speaker : Dr Tudor Groza, Data and Technology Coordinator, Rare Care Centre, Perth Children’s Hospital
Title : Computational Phenotyping in the Era of Precision Medicine: A realistic perspective on the status quo
Meeting ID : 916 9074 3429
Passcode : 263251
Thursday, 18 April 2024
Joint Seminar: BII-AI3 Special Interest Group of Digital Health Seminar
Speaker : Dr Zhaoxia Wang, School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University
Title : Mimicking Human Language Understanding for Fine-grained Multi-class Sentiment Analysis (MiMuSa), and Large Language Models (LLMs)
Monday, 29 April 2024
BII Seminar: Reading Genomes
Speaker : Prof M.S. Madhusudhan, Biology Data Science, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
Title : Reading Genomes
Meeting ID : 957 3436 9839
Passcode : 734146
Thursday, 07 March 2024
BII Seminar: Variational Quantum Algorithms and their applications in computational Chemistry and Biology
Bioinformatics Institute (BII) would like to invite you to attend below seminar: Speaker : Dr Kalyan Dasgupta, IBM Research India
Friday, 01 March 2024
BII Team Building Event 2024
The Rec Club is excited to invite you to this year's Teambuilding event ~ 'Escape from the Science Planet' 🪐🚀👽
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
BII Open House 2024
Join us for the BII Open House 2024 happening on 27 February 2024!
Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Joint Seminar: BII-AI3 Special Interest Group of Digital Health Seminar
Speaker: Dr Xiaoxi Yan, Research Fellow, Duke-NUS Medical School Title: An online learning micro-randomized trial for mHealth studies
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
BII Seminar: Development and application of Single-cell Spatial Multi-omics
Speaker : Prof Gang Cao, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Title : Development and application of Single-cell Spatial Multi-omics
Wednesday, 07 February 2024
BII Seminar: Quantum Machine Learning Workshop
Speaker: Dr Anupama Ray, Advisory Research Scientist, IBM Research India. Title: Quantum Machine Learning Workshop
Monday, 15 January 2024
BII Seminar: Bioinformatics approaches for understanding mutational effects on protein structure and function
Speaker: Prof. M. Michael Gromiha, Dept Of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology MadrasTitle: Bioinformatics approaches for understanding mutational effects on protein structure and function: implications to diseases
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
BII Seminar: Quantum algorithms for many-body physics and beyond
Speaker: Dr Tianqi Chen, Department of Physics, NUS Title: Quantum algorithms for many-body physics and beyond
Monday, 27 November 2023
BII Seminar: Decline of gene function discovery in the midst of a biomedical publication tsunami
Speaker: Dr Frank EisenhaberTitle: Decline of gene function discovery in the midst of a biomedical publication tsunamiMeeting ID: 944 2077 9695 Passcode: 346313 *All are welcome - Registration is not required
Wednesday, 29 November 2023
Joint Seminar: BII-AI3 Special Interest Group of Digital Health
Bioinformatics Institute (BII) and AI3 Special Interest Group of Digital Health would like to invite you to attend below seminar: Speaker: Dr Yueming Jin, Assistant Professor, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore Title : Towards Robust AI for Medical Imaging and Analysis
Friday, 10 November 2023
BII Seminar: Salivary miRNAs in Oral Cancer
Speaker : Dr Vivek Tanavde, Associate Dean, Undergraduate College, Ahmedabad University, India Title : Salivary miRNAs in Oral CancerMeeting ID : 986 4407 1748 Passcode : 119058
Friday, 13 October 2023
BII Poster Session 2023
Details for Poster Session:
2pm: Poster presentation and judging. Teabreak refreshments 4pm: Announcement of poster winners
Tuesday, 31 October 2023
BII Seminar - Dynamic modelling and deep learning in biomedical informatics
Speaker : Prof Hiroyuki Kurata, Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) Title : Dynamic modelling and deep learning in biomedical informatics
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